I still get chills hearing about Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge. This article struck me in a different way: the farmers vs urbanites. I never saw it this way before.
Similar to the North Vietnamese massacre of 3,000 civilians during the Battle of Hue, it’s the doctors, teachers, professors and other elite who have the power to oppose you. The rural folks have little power or money to resist.
And actually went to Paris for schooling.
Most them were kept out of power after the Communists took over. Many believed they were fighting for some kind of socialist democratic state -- they were duped by the northern Communists.
However, I don't think they will succeed. If Trump loses the election, the media narrative will flip and things will settle down fairly quickly. If Trump wins the election, I think the weak-bonded BLM/Antifa/Black-bloc coalition will breakdown too.
Many hot button SJW issues are driven by conservatives, such as how Blacktivist was getting paid by conservative groups (and probably Russian intelligence) before Trump's election. This isn't new -- anyone remember how the W Bush era GOP was just hammering gay marriage? This creates instability and empowers extreme POV's, and changes the discussion from "let's implement Basic Income" and "let's not invade Iraq" to "gays and immigrants are ruining America!" and "which statues should go down?!".
Thus, all we get from the left are symbolic changes but not systemic changes. We're more 'woke' than ever but wealth is even more consolidated than it's been in a century: https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/08/wealth-c...
One of the most fascinating lectures by Yuri Bezmenov, a KGB defector, described 30+ years ago exactly what the long-term plans of the USSR were. It is eerie how much of it applies today: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1FElIhOh_KI
It's interesting to say the least to see how a supposedly neutral source like Wikipedia can be manipulated to drive different view points.
The massacre is where things go sideways: The so-called "massacre" was just a psychological blow.that the US erected, in fact American bombs caused many civilians to die mixed with soldiers on both sides. The Liberation Army buried the civilians who died from American fire, so the United States discovered civilian corpses in mass graves.
Considering many of the bodies had their hands bound behind their back and gunshot wounds to their heads, this is a pretty fantastical explanation.
This will unfortunately remain as one of the tragedies of war that we will never know the full picture of.
The most effective technique the Soviets found to accomplish this was mass starvation.